Learning and Development Conference | Exhibition| Award 2016
If you are involved in learning and development at a strategic, decision-making level - register to attend the event for learning leaders in Africa.
The 2016 Learning and development conference will focus on strategic issues impacting learning and business, with top company case studies and exposure to world-class practices from companies presenting such as: Unilever, Samsung, GE, Starbucks, Accenture, Discovery, Investec and more!
Award - nominate your team for the learning and development team of the year award!
6-8 September 2016
6 September - workshops
7-8 September - conference
Learning is essential for economic survival and if you as a learning leader don't stay current and continuously re-skilled in your profession, you will fall behind. Strengthen your L & D team for the future by attending the event for learning and development leaders.
This programme is developed for senior-level professionals involved in learning and development at a strategic and decision-making level, such as:
-Head of training and development
-Head of learning and development/chief learning officer/chief learning and development officer
-Head of talent management
-Human resource development/people development
-Training specialist/learning specialist
-OD specialist/change and transformation specialist
-Consultant
-HR director
-SETA executive
-Academic/researcher
-NGO executive
Topics and speakers include
-Innovating learning at Samsung: Using digital technology to transform learning and ensure skills for the future (SAMSUNG CASE STUDY)
Verasha Singh, head of training: Mobile/Education/ B2B /B2C, Samsung SA
-Disruption and Fit for Purpose - L&D in tough times
Innocent Magaya, chief HR officer, Econet Wireless, Zimbabwe
-The Starbucks way - where innovation is always brewing
Gosia Stachlewska, learning manager, Starbucks SA
-L & D Strategy: Deploying learning and development initiatives as strategic enablers for performance improvement and proven delivery of business results.
Amorey Pote, talent and service delivery manager, Namibia Breweries Limited
-Learning in a digitally disrupted world - How L & D can lead digital transformation
Lee Naik, managing director, Accenture Digital SA
-The business of corporate learning: How to build a strategically aligned, well-staffed, and well-recognised (branded) function delivering business value
Roti Balogun, Regional Learning Leader, GE (General Electric) Sub-Saharan Africa
-Building personal and organisational sustainability: building capability in the face of disruption and strengthen your L & D team for the future
Italia Boninelli, immediate past executive vice president: People and Organisational Change, AngloGold Ashanti
-Effective talent management - the learning, retention and succession connection
Rachelle Harmsey, leadership development director, Unilever
-From learner control to learner choice: Learner empowerment and supporting continuous learning
Linda van der Loo, group head: Learning and Development, Standard Bank
-Capacity for learning: building institutional leadership capability to achieve service delivery goals
Botshabelo Maja, deputy director- General, The National School of Government
-The shift to the new Learning Community Leader/Facilitator
Debbie Craig, MD, Catalyst Consulting and Kerryn Kohl, Owner, The Coaching House (Authors' of Accelerated Learning for Breakthrough Results)
-The new change agenda: the learning and development leader as an effective change agent to accelerate and deepen the learning process and create meaningful L & D
Lesley- Ann Gatter, head: Learning and Development, Investec
-The new corporate learning leader: Chief culture, change, capability, engagement and career officer
Terrence Taylor, GM: Leadership, Learning and Talent, Discovery Group
-The Corporate University - drivers of a learning organisation
Pearl Maphoshe, HR director, Pick 'n Pay
-Meet the modern learner: insight into the way the modern workers learn
Ilka Dunne, senior learning architect and head: Young Talent Development, RMB
In conversation with: Prof Theo Veldsman and Dr Andrew Johnson (editors of leadership: perspectives from the frontline) and Terry Meyer (author of reshaping talent in Africa).
Date: 07 September 2016 to 08 September 2016
Time: 08:30 - 16:00
Venue: The Hyatt Regency Rosebank, Johannesburg
